![]() ![]() This is a movie that wants its revolutions, but is not willing to go through the grind - by the end, by virtue of a cycle of mechanised carnality and tokenisms, the women are indeed liberated, but what they are liberated from is sex itself.ĭespite all the claims it makes about a woman's right to express herself completely, this is an apologetic film that doesn't even know how to frame a woman's body it isn't generous or airy enough to just let a woman be, and take over the sequences.Ģ015's Angry Indian Goddesses was - for three quarters of its length at least - a sensual, fluid movie that showed us how women behave in their most private moments, how they confront their vanities, how their bodies move in relation to each other. (Because it can have this same effect on both genders, the film does make a unique case for Gender Equality after all!)Īnd therein also emerges the shallowness of this film that turns women's liberation into a dissertation topic and infuses it with no feelings whatsoever. The biggest disappointments of Lipstick Under My Burkha are its sex scenes.ĭevoid of any heat, photographed in the most unimaginative manner, and 'calculated' to a fault, the sex scenes in Lipstick Under My Burkha have the power to wean both women and men off sex.
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